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Course Details

Grasses

The Greens are a mixture of bent poa anua and fescu grasses and are built to USGA spec

Fairways

The undulating fairways are an average width of 25 yds

Rough

Intermediate 1.5 inches 2 widths

Semi rough 2.5 inches 4 widths

UNmaintained rough is severe

Greens

Mostly gradual undulations and should be stimping at around 10 feet by thursday

Course Details

The course will be playing it's full length of 7060 yds. The fairways are also quite soft due to recent rain. The name of the course changed from the MOnarchs course to the PGA Centenary course in 2001 and will host the Ryder Cup in 2014.

Course Layout

Driving is important although the fairways are quite generous. Holes 2 and 5 have water very much in play. The wind strength also plays a big part in the level of difficulty as the course is quite exposed.

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